The UnitingCare network is one of the largest providers of community services in Australia providing services to more than 2 million Australians each year, employing 35,000 staff and 24,000 volunteers nationally. It provides services to children, young people and families, people with disabilities, and older Australians, in urban, rural and remote communities.

UnitingCare Australia has today welcomed the Prime Minister’s announcement of the extension of the Transitional National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness (NPAH) until June 2018 but says a more comprehensive, long term response strategy is required to address homelessness.